[HatOb_610] Block with dipinto

Jadwiga Iwaszczuk

Object Category: Architectural element

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 12.181.304

Object Type: decorated block

Width: 18.0cm

Height: 28.0cm

Material: limestone

Depth: 18.0cm

Limestone block with traces of mortar. Traces of thick chisel are visible. On one face an inscription painted with ink is preserved. One of 35 blocks with this type of dipinto found by H. Carter in the area of the Valley Temple.

The block was excavated by Howard Carter in 1910 and purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Egyptian Government in 1912 (Rogers Fund).

Collection: Museum object

Bibliography:

Carter, Howard, The ‘Valley’-Temple of Queen Hatshepsût, in: Carter, Howard, Earl of Carnarvon, Five Years’ Explorations at Thebes. A Record of Work Done 1907-1911, London 1912, 41

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